An enduring mystique surrounds the Voyager 1 and 2 probes. Launched two weeks apart in 1977, the twin probes changed the way we see our solar system, sending back stunningly detailed views of Jupiter, ...

NASA's twin Voyager probes are coming up on half a century in action, and as a result, their power supplies are dwindling. To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet ...

Engineers with NASA have announced they will be disabling two science instruments aboard the iconic Voyager probes in the ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 will soon reach one light-day from Earth, highlighting humanity’s most distant spacecraft and the vast scale ...

The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. Reading time 3 minutes The Voyager spacecraft have been cruising through interstellar space ...

It had a heck of a run, or interstellar journey more precisely. Special plasma sensor equipment built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and attached to NASA’s Voyager 2 ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach one light-day from Earth in November 2026, emphasising the immense scale of space.

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